beGLOBAL is startups and tech with a Korean flavor!!!!

On Friday September 13th, 2013 at the Four Seasons, Palo Alto the beGLOBAL summit was held. Produced by the organizers of beLAUNCH, the top Startup/Tech Conference in Korea and held every year in Gangnam, beGLOBAL aims to bring together the best of Tech from the East and West. They feature the top giants from Silicon Valley to discuss the latest tech trends, with a global perspective.

beSUCCESS is a South Korean media platform about startups, technology and entrepreneurship with English and Korean language versions. beSUCCESS introduces Korean start-ups and companies to global audiences through our English version and through our media partners. beSUCCESS supports and inspires readers by sharing interesting business ideas, success stories, resources and trends from all over the world. Furthermore, beSUCCESS offers opportunities for Korean start-ups and companies to meet other start-ups, investors and companies from Korea and abroad through events and partnerships.

Apple’s Perils of Innovation!!!

Apple’s Perils of Innovation (via Dice News in Tech)

As expected, Apple recently announced two new iPhones — the lower cost iPhone 5C and a follow-on to the iPhone 5 named the iPhone 5S. In a previous entry, I said that the new iPhone would not be named the iPhone 5S. I was wrong. The iPhone 5S does…

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Eltechs is a high tech software startup from Russia!!!!

Eltechs is a young high tech software startup. Their goal is to create products of excellent technical quality that can affect the landscape of IT industry as a whole. To achieve this they use the best practices of software development.

Their project is a binary translator that runs applications for the conventional “desktop” and server x86 processors on energy-efficient ARM CPU without recompilation. The demand for this product emerges along with ARM-based server market. Currently this market uses open-source software. On the other hand, proprietary server software has been developed and compiled for the x86 architecture and thus cannot be used on ARM-based servers.

Tech Demand in Seattle Now Trumps Silicon Valley?

Tech Demand in Seattle Now Trumps Silicon Valley? (via Dice News in Tech)

Seattle-area employers advertised for more than 31,000 technology jobs during August, according to WANTED Analytics, which reports that demand in the Emerald City is growing faster than in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. The number of tech jobs…

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The Battle of Startups: Happy Farm vs Skolkovo!!!!!

On Wednesday, September 11th, 2013 at 7:00pm there was an intriguing battle between tech startups represented by Happy Farm Business Incubator and Skolkovo Foundation IT Cluster who are on a roadshow in the Silicon Valley during September. The event was meant to include the trendiest and the most promising startups from Ukraine, Russia and from all over the Eastern Europe.

Incubator Starter Studio Opens Doors in Orlando!!!!!!!!

Incubator Starter Studio Opens Doors in Orlando (via Dice News in Tech)

Starter Studio officially opened its doors last month in Orlando. The technology incubator is the brainchild of entrepreneur-developer Gregg Pollack, Founder of Envy Labs. Pollack’s company does a lot of Web development for clients, and is well-known…

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Square Offers Coding Camp to Women and Girls!!!!!!

Square Offers Coding Camp to Women and Girls (via Dice News in Tech)

San Francisco-based Square is offering an intensive computer science program for women in high school and college, joining a growing number of companies aiming to increase the number of women in the field. The programs are selective, with only eight…

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Google Play for Education Opens New Dev Market!!!!

Google Play for Education Opens New Dev Market (via Dice News in Tech)

Developing apps for children is decidedly tough, but not impossible. Increasingly, schools are bringing technology into every classroom. BYOD programs allow children to bring devices into school for the purpose of participating in classroom lessons.…

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Will Back Office IT Jobs Disappear?

Will Back Office IT Jobs Disappear? (via Dice News in Tech)

Back office IT jobs in North America and Europe may be in danger of disappearing over the next four years, according to a report by the Hackett Group. The research firm forecasts that nearly half of the 3.1 million such tech jobs in place in 2002 will…

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State of the Alley-2013!!!

AlleyWatch delivers its first State of the Alley infographic highlighting some key indictors in the New York startup and technology ecosystem.

Is Wearable Tech The New Trend In 2013? [Interactive Infographic]

Now that technology is in such a progressive phase, you might start asking yourself where the next trends will come from. There are a whole lot of different factors that have to be considered in order to get a conclusive answer to that question. There’s no doubt that technology companies are innovating on the border of the future right now, and with that comes a whole lot of new technology. One of the most progressive forms of technology is wearable tech.

Is the Middle East the next new market for tech startups?

Is the Middle East the next new market for tech startups? (via Pando Daily)

By Christopher M. Schroeder On September 3, 2013 [This is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, "Startup Rising" by Christopher M. Schroeder. Copyright © 2013 by the author and reprinted by permission of Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers…

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US tech sector feels pain from PRISM!!!!!

US tech sector feels pain from PRISM (via AFP)

Revelations about vast US data collection programs are starting to hit American tech companies, which are ramping up pressure for increased transparency to try to mitigate the damage. An industry group, the Cloud Security Alliance said last month that…

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Global Games: Culturalize, Not Localize!!!!!!

Global Games: Culturalize, Not Localize (via Dice News in Tech)

While a lot of attention is paid to localization in game creation, many American developers don’t consider another important – some would say critical – aspect of design: culturalization. If you’re seeking to rapidly distribute titles in an…

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Hugo Barra’s departure from Google is huge news for Xiaomi. It’s bigger news for Chinese tech!!!!!

Hugo Barra’s departure from Google is huge news for Xiaomi. It’s bigger news for Chinese tech (via Pando Daily)

By Hamish McKenzie On August 29, 2013 It is significant that Android’s Hugo Barra is leaving Google to join Xiaomi, a three-year-old smartphone maker that is already valued at $10 billion. And it’s just as significant that he is taking on a role…

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Dr. Maombi may revolutionize healthcare in Tanzania!!!!!

Dr. Maombi is a mobile app that enables health workers in rural Tanzania to seek input from doctors in city hospitals about the patients in their village. Due to limited infrastructure, it is often too expensive or time-consuming for patients to make the trek from their village to a city hospital. Instead, they visit their local health worker. These health workers are not trained doctors and serious medical conditions may not be identified or managed adequately.

Attack of the Kling-ons!!!!!!

Attack of the Kling-ons (via slashdot)

Who would be so deeply misled that they actually believe in the fawning ideology of the tech blogs and Wired magazine, that “geek” is the new cool? No one I know, for sure. The disconnect is even more acute when you examine it by gender: despite…

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Digitalundivided wants to start dialogue about more black people in tech!!!!!!

Digitalundivided wants to start dialogue about more black people in tech (via Pando Daily)

By Hamish McKenzie On August 27, 2013 Kathryn Finney’s dad was a high-school dropout living in inner-city Milwaukee and working for a brewery, unloading boxes from a truck. His life path seemed pretty much set. But then, at 36 years old, he took a…

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Tech Startups Power Local Employment!!!!

Tech Startups Power Local Employment (via Dice News in Tech)

Tech startups are more likely than other new businesses to create jobs, according to a new report from the Kauffman Foundation. In 2011, the most recent year with data available, high-tech companies between one and five years old created a net 16,700…

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Expander insures you get the real thing!!!

Expander, which helps ensure product authenticity with verification technology that protects against counterfeiting. The startup’s tech also allows consumers to track items to their source, an especially valuable tool for food companies that want to reassure buyers in export markets of their products’ safety.